From the course: Fieldwire: Construction Field Management

Understanding how Fieldwire works - Fieldwire Tutorial

From the course: Fieldwire: Construction Field Management

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Understanding how Fieldwire works

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- [Instructor] Fieldwire should be thought of as a service rather than a single piece of software. Most of the processing and heavy lifting done by Fieldwire is done in the cloud rather than on your computer. There are Fieldwire apps available on different platforms that allow you to login and access that service, but in order to do so, each user needs their own account in order to login and access the projects that are stored in Fieldwire. I'm here on Fieldwire's website where it talks about user accounts and you can see that these are set up on a per user, per month basis. If you're setting up accounts for less than 50 people, you can get started right here from the webpage. I'll walk you through that and discuss the different account levels in a few minutes. This is also where you'd start if you were a subcontractor and the general contractor on a project has told you that the plans and specs and tasks will be tracked and updated on their Fieldwire system. You would start here by signing up for your individual account and then the general contractor can invite you to access their project. Now, let's talk about that access. A project that's set up in Fieldwire lives in the cloud, not in any one person's computer. This makes it so that everyone's looking at the same documents at once. In other words, a project manager only needs to push a set of plan revisions to the cloud once and then everyone that views that project will see those latest revisions. No need to email each revision or push them out to everyone that has a set of plans and you'll see as the course progresses that Fieldwire handles things like plan revisions and version control automatically. When you access a set of construction drawings in Fieldwire, you're always looking at the latest version and everyone on the team is seeing the same thing.

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